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Identity Revealed: Meet the Man Who Threw the Book at Obama

Earlier today, the Associated Press reported that the Secret Service had questioned and released an “over-exuberant fan of President Barack Obama” who had pitched a book toward the president while he spoke at a Philadelphia rally on Sunday. The man had reportedly written the book and hoped the president would read it, said Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan.

Identity Revealed: Meet the Man Who Threw the Book at Obama

Photo: Reuters

A man claiming to be the book-tossing author in question has since come forward, calling Sunday “one of the most dramatic days” of his life. Sajid Ali Khan took to his blog to describe the debacle:

I went to the President Obama rally, in Philadelphia. Usually I am able to place myself at a point where I can shake the hand of the President and talk to him. This time I was one fence away so there was no way I could speak to him. There was five rows of people between me and the President. I was still about 10′ away from him. So I held up my book and as soon as he looked at me I tilted the book to show him that I wanted to give it to him. …

The book almost floated in a magical curve. I thought it would land off the stage but it floated and landed in front of the Vice President. I made a V sign and gave him a thumbs up and he enjoyed the whole episode and was smiling and gave me back a thumbs up. As if saying he got it. A secret service officer ran up to the stage and picked it up and soon I was surrounded by the secret service. I was interrogated by a few officers. They said it is a very serious crime to throw an object at the President of the United States, even if it is a book and I am to be locked up till they made sure I meant no harm. However the Chief Officer was very professional and I told him if the Vice President welcomed my behavior then how come it is a crime. Anyway one officer ran a background check and he finally said that my record is clean and that I am good. I explained to the chief officer the whole idea how I need to take my work to the President. He said that this is not the way. I talked to him for over an hour. He said that according to procedure he will file a report and send it with the book to the White House. Then he let me go with a warning that if I did anything like this again I would be banned from any future rallies. …

Click here to read more of Khan’s account. (h/t Gateway Pundit)

Comments (116)

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  • Chicago Ray
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:56pm

    Perfect example of how the left hates anyone that they don’t agree with which includes about everything, as out of the box it was ‘tea party nut throws book at Obama…news at 10″ with no apologies as usual.

    I didn’t see any Secret Service willing to take the shot on that one huh? lol

    ,,,and that’s how Muslims support him , throwing books at his head, and they all loved when Bush got that ‘shoe’ treatment.

    Tea party man or woman does that it’s prison time and the left would be talking about it for ever.

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  • dressseller
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:51pm

    “I explained to the chief officer the whole idea how I need to take my work to the President. He said that this is not the way.”

    Really. Duh. Did anyone else find that statement hilarious? I don’t know why it made me laugh. But it did.

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  • justice
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:49pm

    Don’t look Ethal, its a muslim book thrower….he knew the president doesn’t mind no clothes..he was probly getting ready to go to change his socialist clothes…

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  • RobertCA
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:48pm

    So it’s ok for a “tolerant” “peaceful” muslim to throw a book on the President of the USA but it’s not ok for these vicious Tea Party dangerous radical people to express themselves .

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  • CapitalistforGod
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:39pm

    Will Book Throwers Unite?

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  • blacksmith
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:36pm

    The secret service looks at the suspect as to the threat level. This ignorant fellow was not felt to be a threat to the president due to his ethnicity,political motivation and just good old fashioned exuberance. Let us all not forget that if this gentleman is a muslim that we are assured,by the Obama administration, that these folks would never intend to do harm to an American.

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    • Bot
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 9:18pm

      You have forgotten that a Muslim who leaves the faith is subject to death!

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  • The_Truth
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:35pm

    Media spin, I call BS. If we can get a close up of the book I would love to see the title. Why wasn’t Hussein facing the man throwing the book? Last time I checked when someone acknowledges at me when I want to toss them something, I face the person doing the tossing. Why would I not protect the book? If this is a book I want the POTUS to read, why risk damaging during the exchange? This is a BS story to go along with a BS administration. Use a Muslim as a scapegoat so you can’t question the integrity. Same thing if they were to use a black man, if you critique the validity of the story the Progs call rascism.

    Interesting that this feels like brothers fighting each other and when the little brother can’t take it he cries “I can’t breathe” because that is the ultimate way to catch the parents attention and get the big brother off the little brother’s back. Whenever the Progs are challenged on a position they cry “Racism, Racism” and the media jumps on board to villify the perpetrator.

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  • GoingBeck
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:28pm

    No wonder he missed.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:26pm

    Why are the men going nuts about this president, will they be throwing underwear next?

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:22pm

    The One’s big, fat, throbbing, uber-logical brain emitted a powerful, irredecent, magical, glowing, magnetic aura which gently lifted the book from this (pre-screened) obama-super-fan’s shaking, sweaty hands and made it float upon a mystical, invisible, rainbow-colored magic carpet through the heavens and caused it to land gently upon the glorious, golden alter of Dear Leader as if upon the wings of a glittery, fluffy unicorn of passion and respect, providing mankind with “one of the most dramatic days” in the entire history of human-kind and this lovely mother-planet we call Earth.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:29pm

      Tri-ox, do you think Sajid had a thrill running up his leg at the time?

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    • Tri-ox
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:31pm

      Tingles, lots and lots of magical tingles.

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  • pajamash
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:20pm

    “They said it is a very serious crime to throw an object at the President of the United States…”

    Huh? Faux pas, yes, but a crime? Really?

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  • Cog
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:19pm

    Toldja! A disgruntled leftie was the culprit.

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    • w4jle
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 1:20am

      Toldja it was a girlie man! if it had been an all American baseball playing, apple pie eating guy he would have clocked him.

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  • angelcat
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:18pm

    And would the man have gotten off as likely if he had been a Tea Party member or non-minority? My guess is that he would NOT have. The lamestream media would be screaming about the anger and disrespect of the person – even if he/she was also just trying to give Obama a book. This man was in one of the protected groups.

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  • Johnny Constitution
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:18pm

    “if the Vice President welcomed my behavior then how come it is a crime?”

    Well, of course he does. If you were to do something stupid like assassinate the President (which I do not endorse or condone), then he’d be President. He’s rooting for you!

    I jest, of course.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:27pm

      Best be carefull Johnny. Or you will go oops Johnny oops.

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  • pajamash
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:18pm

    Sajid. I got news for you buddy. The only way he was going to see that book was if he had eyes on the back of his head. Of course it could just be that he does…..hmmmm?

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  • Mary M. Tebbe
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:15pm

    Well it was just Sajid Ali Khan. That explains everything! He wasn’t a conservative, not a tea party member, probably not a Christian (can’t say for sure), so – of course he’s okay guys. I mean, I‘m just sayin’, gees….. Go home in peace Bro!

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  • Jimmers46
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:14pm

    Them ******* love it when the Imam speaks! I wonder if his leg tingled?

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  • NHABE64
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:05pm

    I would like to write a book about Obama and I am not an exuberant fan. It would be a short story and would tell of a cockroach that came out of nowhere, who did nothing, has never worn a military uniform, does not know what its like to shoot an enemy or be shot at, who grew up in a perverted world of racism against white people and has clearly shown he is a communist and a Marxist. It would tell how he lied to America while making promises he has not kept. How he has spent to the point of national bankruptcy, how he has brought forth socialist programs and bills that will help bring America to its knees and make us a 3rd world nation. In the end of the book I would close by saying I hope he just rides off into the sunset a broken socialist, on his white pony, blue cowboy boots and his commuist manifesto to spread misery and civil war in some other country. Hopefully one far from here like Kenya perhaps. He is a cockroach and I believe America has had more than enough of his lies and deceit. What a waste of human life. Obama is going down, and hopefully never to return.

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    • JBaer
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 8:17pm

      Unfortunately, cockroaches are hard to get rid of! Bring in the exterminator!

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 3:32am

      You have just insulted all cockroaches…

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  • C. Schwehr
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:04pm

    Ah yes…he was an overexuberant MUSLIM fan of the defacto president. I’m sure that it would have been a conservative trying to get the defacto president to read something that made sense for a change the poor guy would be in jail…especially if he was an evangelical christian. Too bad it wasn’t a shoe…a BIG shoe!

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 8:08pm

      Yes so much for “blind” justice …. can you imagine if the guy had ever gone to a TEA Party?

      But this guy gets a pass? :-0

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    • GardenoftheGods
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 8:29pm

      Does it amaze anyone else that this guy is out after just 1 hour, blogging about the wonderful experience? How about a criminal charge for throwing something at the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES? No, of course not! He’s a “fan”…had he been a Conservative throwing a copy of the Constitution “magically” at Obama; he’d be in jail for a very long time! How’s that “Hope & Change” working for y’all?

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  • Probity
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:04pm

    I made a cinder block today and I want to give it to Obama, where will he be speaking next. Oh did I mention it has hais logo on one side and and image of his face on the other?

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  • thesixfour
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:01pm

    book on magical curve, thumbs up = interrogated serious crime locked up background check warning banned

    I wonder if he’s still exuberant? Maybe he can offer to place one of those nifty FBI trackers on his car too! Those book throwers are a menace!

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  • Kataklysmic
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 6:57pm

    Ha. What a bunch of spin. An over-exhuberant fan of conservatism, maybe. If this is how liberals show their admiration, no wonder their ideas are going down in flames.

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  • american1st
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 6:55pm

    respect for the office??
    i must be old fashioned to think tossing things at a president is disrespectful,
    and who wouldn’t realize that throwing things at a president will get you arrested by the secret service?.

    the world has changed….

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    • pajamash
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:21pm

      American1st – You have to remember…he did not throw the book at the President. It “magically” floated up to the stage.

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    • american1st
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 12:08am

      magically floated…. you have to give it lots of spin to turn thrown into magically floated…..

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    • RKade
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 9:49am

      The book floated?
      An eastern name?

      It was Ali Baba communicating with one of his thieves! :D

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 6:54pm

    Just another muslim ….

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    • Unit_of_Fire
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 8:01pm

      This story nicely bumps the the C4 found in the NY cemetary now doesn’t it? Can we expect a forensics determinitation to the C4′s source?

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    • w4jle
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 1:04am

      C4 in a graveyard? I want an immediate investigation of Democratic voter intimidation!

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    • Mannax
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 7:52am

      Ok, I laughed, that was funny.

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    • BenThereToo
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 3:25pm

      @ W4JLE
      I about busted a gut on that one. Good job!

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  • BetterDays
    Posted on October 11, 2010 at 6:53pm

    “They said it is a very serious crime to throw an object at the President of the United States, even if it is a book and I am to be locked up till they made sure I meant no harm”
    Oh gee wilkers we’re all in trouble now, we’ve been throwing the Truth and Love at him for months now.
    I hear the warbling sirens now, there coming to take us away………..

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    • 5000YRLEAPER
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:22pm

      If I was caught throwing a book at him, I just call it freedom of speech (the press), and if that doesn’t work, I would say that the last administration (Bush) made me do it.

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:49pm

      If someone attacking the President is declared an “over-exuberant fan” I hate to see what they would call someone who really was nuts – and tried something with absolute violence.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (mixed art)

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    • FreedomOfSpeech
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 7:58pm

      I would lock him up just based on his name.

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    • robbmeistr
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 8:52pm

      Why even bother throwing a book? No one in Washington reads anything anyway. Ya know…stuff like: Healthcare Bill, Stimulus Package, SB 1070. Why bother?

      robbmeistr  
    • FreedomOfSpeech
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 9:54pm

      If the book thrower was an old white guy instead of one of Obama’s muslim brothers, do you also think he would be released without charge?

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    • ILFarmer
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 10:16pm

      he could have been held longer had he been a disgruntled person….and longer still had he thrown the 71,000+ page tax code book; which i would have laughed hysterically at.

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    • Grandpa
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 10:36pm

      Is throwing my shoes at him illegal? Or maybe a stinky sock?

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    • Leslie_Benedict
      Posted on October 11, 2010 at 10:38pm

      Hey, Joe the VP gave the guy a “thumbs up” ’cause he thought he was throwing the book containing Obammy’s COLB birth certificate, college transcripts, medical records, etc.

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    • Jetson
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 3:27am

      Someone needs to give this genius a chisel so he can write his next masterpiece on a brick.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 3:29am

      I am shocked that an Obama crazed fan can sit long enough to write a book. Heck most of ‘em can’t read.

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    • starman70
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 9:34am

      “An over exhuberant fan of Obama?” He threw a book at the president and was questioned and released? If an American patriot had thrown a copy of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independance an the prez. he would have been arrested and held indefinately on so many charges that a battery of lawyers couldn’t ever decipher.The duplicity of this administration is so abominable that there are not enough words to describe it. By the way, what was the title of the book? “100 New Ways to Undermine America” or maybe “Communism, The Red Future“ or ” Mao, Stalin and other DEMOCRAT Heros”

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    • starman70
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 10:38am

      FREEDOMOFSPEECH, Would any Muslim lock up another Muslim? Hah, I don’t think so.

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    • AngryTexanFromAmarillo
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 4:07pm

      TREASON

      This word imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of allegiance.

      The Constitution of the United States, Art. III, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. This offense is punished with death. By the same article of the Constitution, no person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

      “”””””“MOST IMPORTANT PART””””””””””adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. This offense is punished with death.””””””””””””””””””””””””

      which is exactly what Obama has done and many many of our congress and senators have done as well.

      It is time that we surround the white house and demand the law be enforced with out prejudice.
      then we move on to congress and senate. demand justice.

      Obama has committed treason on more than one account and should be held accountable by the American people.

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    • *************************
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 4:08pm

      “The book almost floated in a magical curve.”

      Cue “The Omen” music … as you watch about Obama and flies and bees and rats (oh, my)!

      “THE OMEN Of OBAMA & FLIES & RATS At 666 Pennsylvania Ave. :: Glenn Beck Reports The CREEPY News!!”
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwTfwdxklUI

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    • chazman
      Posted on October 12, 2010 at 6:43pm

      Based on his name is the reason he wasn’t locked up …

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